The Afro-pop singer clears
misconceptions on who wrote his hit song
‘This year’ amongst other tidbits.
On his new album, “Oba Orin”, the ‘This
year’ crooner Jaywon is super excited the
album is dropping and the fact that this is
coming under his own team and record
label. He says we should expect the best
from the album as he has the best voices
out of Nigeria on it.
When asked what he has been working
on in the last couple of years, the singer
says he felt he should take his time in
putting a team together following his
leaving his former record label Kennis
Music.
As regards how easy it was for him,
Jaywon said it was no big deal, his
contract expired and he felt he needed to
move on, that it was a good time to start
his own thing adding that as a man, he
feels you should learn to do something
for yourself and not have to depend on
people all the time.
Regarding the challenges building his
own team, he admitted money is always a
big factor, but he thanks God he is still
able to put out the kind of music he wants
to push out there.
On what inspired the title of the album
“Oba orin”, the singer says he initially
had three titles, he wasn’t even thinking
‘’Oba orin’’ but all of a sudden, the name
came, then he put it on his Twitter
handle and the title started trending, and
even the marketer endorsed it, and that
was how it stuck. He added that the
album encompasses love, dance and
inspiration.
When asked what his reaction was when
he heard Nomoreloss wrote the song This
year for him, the ‘ Madantin’ singer said
“ People are funny, the industry is funny, even
the artistes are funny, when he was alive, I
didn’t see that, now he’s dead everybody are
now talking about him that he wrote the song.
When he was alive, did he go on TV to tell
anyone that he wrote the song, I was on trending
on HipTV earlier this year in January, I cleared
the air when I was asked the question “What’s
the funniest thing I have heard, then I was like,
“ Somebody told me that Nomoreloss wrote
my song, he was just opportune to be in the
studio with us and he liked the song, he has
always been a fan of the song, I can remember
his words then, he was like “Ah, Jaywon you
have this kind of song, and you people are
playing around the studio, this is dope, we were
already done with the hook and the verse one of
the song, and he even did a backup on the part
of the song that goes “If you believe say
Amen…”.
He then went on to add that he is looking
for writers, that if anyone had a song that
is nice, they should bring it to him, but he
won’t be so cheap to deny someone that
writes a song for him. He mentioned that
he wrote the song ‘ Jawo Jawo’ for late
Goldie and ‘ Facebook love’ for Essence .
“ Before you can say you own a song or wrote a
song, if you make a hook of a song for someone,
you can say you own the song, because the hook
is like the main thing in the song, but the
industry is very fake and corny sometimes, they
just want to be relevant by saying something”.
The Headies 2013 winner said some
people take part of his songs without
permission but he just watches and
ignores. He called out Tim Godfrey’s for
his song ‘This year’ alleging that he took
out some part from his award winning
song ‘This year’ without giving him due
credit. The singer said he didn’t want to
loud it so that they won’t say it’s because
he is trying to be relevant or stay in the
news so just tries to stay away from
scandalous events.
The singer says he is working on signing
new acts soon to his record label, saying
he has two artists he is actually working
on and they are featured on his new
album, and we would be hearing from
them soon.
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